This story has a new twist:

A Kerr County Sheriff’s deputy suffered a bullet wound to his hip and upper thigh area Tuesday after his gun discharged during a timed weapons proficiency exam.

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The bullet grazed the side of the holster, entering O’Keefe’s right hip area and then exiting his right thigh.

As is always the case, note the gun went off as if it were sentient. More:

O’Keefe’s holster has a safety feature — a hold and release mechanism — that requires him to hold down the safety button in order to remove the gun from the holster.

Sheriff’s department investigators reconstructed the incident, using O’Keefe’s holster in the re-enactment. What they found was a problem with the design of the holster itself that caused the discharge of the weapon. Holding the safety release button while pulling the weapon out of its holster forces the officer’s finger to be on the trigger while he is removing the gun.

Investigators determined that in the urgency of the timed exam, O’Keefe pulled the weapon out of the holster without realizing his finger was on the trigger and the gun discharged.

Sorry, that is not a design problem with the holster, that is not following basic gun safety.

Posted in uncategorized on May 28th, 2004 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |